Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made a number of eyebrow-raising statements in a wide-ranging interview conducted over Twitter DMs for more than an hour late Tuesday with Vox reporter Kelsey Piper. "Fuck regulators," he said when asked the exchange's lobby efforts had been mostly public relations. "They make everything worse."

Bankman-Fried said that he regretted filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and that "everything would be ~70% fixed right now if I hadn't." 

"Instead I filed, and the people in charge of it are trying to burn it all to the ground out of shame," he said. As for what's next, Bankman-Fried said he had two weeks to raise $8 billion.

"That's basically all that matters for the rest of my life," he said. "A month ago I was one of the world's greatest fundraisers. Now I'm the fallen wreckage of one."